Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 69
Buh Fox, him wrop him head an yez up so nobody kin know um, an eh paint eh horse one side white an tarruh side black, an eh tek eh two jug er rum an eh ride ter de camp, an eh do dis es Buh Rabbit bin tell um fuh do.
Who acts: Buh, nobody kin, two, dis es · What happens: wrop, know, jug, tell, do · To what, where: de, um, rum, um fuh · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh, nobody kin, two, dis es), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wrop | nsubj |
| 2 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrop | punct |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wrop | nsubj |
| 5 | wrop | wrop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wrop | obj |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrop | obj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 yez | det |
| 9 | yez | yez | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 head | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 yez | compound:prt |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 kin | compound |
| 13 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrop | advcl |
| 15 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 know | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 paint | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 paint | det |
| 18 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 paint | amod |
| 19 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 um | conj |
| 20 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 21 horse | advmod |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 know | obl |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 side | nummod |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 know | obl |
| 24 | white | white | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 side | det |
| 26 | tarruh | tarruh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 side | compound |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 side | nmod |
| 28 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 know | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 tek | punct |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 tek | det |
| 31 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tek | amod |
| 32 | tek | tek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrop | obl |
| 33 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 35 jug | advmod |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 jug | nsubj |
| 35 | jug | jug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 tek | acl:relcl |
| 36 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 rum | advmod |
| 37 | rum | rum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 jug | obj |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 ter | det |
| 39 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 ter | amod |
| 40 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ter | compound |
| 41 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rum | appos |
| 42 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 41 ter | flat:foreign |
| 43 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ter | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 eh | punct |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 eh | det |
| 46 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ter | conj |
| 47 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 tell | aux |
| 48 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 es | compound |
| 49 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 tell | nsubj |
| 50 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 es | appos |
| 51 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Buh | flat |
| 52 | bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Buh | flat |
| 53 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 eh | acl:relcl |
| 54 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 fuh | compound |
| 55 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 tell | obj |
| 56 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 tell | ccomp |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrop | present | Buh | de | a eh tek obl; head obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | present | nobody kin | um and a eh paint | horse obl; one side white a tarruh side obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | jug | present | two | rum | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rum=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present · do-support | dis es | um fuh | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent fuh=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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